Dear Roger
Ignatiy VishnevetskyA letter to a friend.
A letter to a friend.
The prolific filmmaker talks about money, intuition, digital style, and betraying the audience.
A master’s hackwork and a slicked-up cartoon.
Can criticism find a place for workflow?
Davids cameo in uniform.
A look at live-sung musical numbers, past and present.
An East German hospital circa 1980 becomes a locus of decision-making.
A portrait of modern warfare as self-perpetuating technocracy.
After a three year absence, the column returns with a look at The Hobbit’s 48 fps technology.
The follow-up to Universal Soldier: Regeneration is a bleak, challenging genre hybrid.
Movement 2A in a critical exquisite corpse project analyzing films by Tony Scott. This entry focuses on The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009).
The world’s least pretentious auteur makes his most generic—and most playful—movie yet.